TEMPO.CO, Siem Reap - The internet and technology, according to Vitaly Kamluk, Asia-Pacific director of Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), are a dilemma issue for every country. It is increasingly developed, but on the other hand, the cyber threat emerges.
“The government must open themselves to develop further,” Kamluk said in Cyber Security Weekend conference, Cambodia, September 19-22, 2018.
At the time, the internet world is similar to a country that must be preserved by its government. “They (governments) compete to build up newest cybersecurity to filter contents that enter their country,” Kamluk said.
The geopolitics issue adds up the dilemma which is affected by how each government drafts policy on data security, such as the European Union issued general data protection regulation (GDPR).
The regulation aimed at securing the society from data misuse as recently publicized that social media giant Facebook involved in data breach with Cambridge Analytica.
“With different countries building their local web fences, the initially free internet is turning into divided and independent patches of online states, which may benefit individual countries to some extent, but will surely be an ace card for criminals aiming to unleash worldwide cyber threats,” said Stephan Neumeier, Managing Director Asia Pacific Kaspersky Lab.
"The future of the Internet is fragile and, as nations scramble to beef up their defences, we're giving birth to 'Balkanisation',” Kamluk added.
Balkanisation refers to a division of a multinational state into smaller ethnically homogeneous entities, taken from the Balkan war which divided Yugoslavia into 7 countries, namely Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo.
"It is very contradictory. On one hand, they (countries) are isolated, but it does not rule out the possibility of getting cyber attacks. If there is no country willing to cooperate, and so with limited technological resources, then what to do?" Neumeier said.
AMRI MAHBUB
